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Consumption charge on electricity is one of the issues faced by dormitories, room for rent, apartment and the like. Ideally, tenants must only pay what they have used for a specific period of time, but inevitably sometimes, they pay beyond their actual use simply because of unavailability of a meter or machine that could measure their actual use individually. Due to this practice and the current scheme...
This paper describes the humanitarian effort to help bring clean water and solar power to people in need along the Amazon River in Nauta, Peru. George Fox University partnered with JungleMaster Ministries to create a long-term development plan, beginning with a full prototype of the system at the NGO's house in Nauta. The engineering design, installation, and test of the system are discussed in detail,...
Apiculture has been a method for harvesting honey and helping crop proliferation, nonetheless late climate changes have affected bee population. Having an automated hive as a tool for beekeepers would help to increase and protect current bee population guaranteeing crop proliferation needed for human consumption. In this paper, we propose an electronic beehive that recollect honey automatically, regulate...
Chemical plant is a factory producing chemical goods through a continuous chemical reactions flow process in a set of equipment and apparatus. In this factory, equipment is the most crucial components in the whole life cycle of the plant encompassing planning, design, engineering, construction, commissioning, operation & maintenance (O&M) and disposal. According to the industrial statistics,...
While many DDoS mitigation approaches utilize the flexibility of software-defined infrastructures in a decentralized fashion, most of them assume that the infrastructure as a whole is willing and capable of mitigating all incoming packets of an attack. Those approaches cannot be used out of the box, if the attack overburdens the infrastructure or the monetary budget for mitigation is limited. Therefore...
In current business and product development processes, creating and editing diagrams (e.g. Statechart diagrams, Flowcharts or BPMN) play an important role. Three input methods can be distinguished: traditional mode-based editors, sketching editors, and gesture-based editors. Most of today's diagram editors are mode-based and use mouse & keyboard as input devices. (Multi-)touch inputs have not...
Common hospital monitoring set up includes nurses taking rounds throughout their assigned wards and checking the patient's vital signs. This process is very time consuming and prone to human errors, especially for large scale hospitals. As a solution, an Internet of Things (IoT) based pulmonary monitoring system was proposed. The system uses a single-lead heart rate sensor connected to a microcontroller...
The number of persons 65 years of age or older are increasing in Japan. Among them the number of living alone not in nursing home but in his or her own home is predicted to increase more and more. On the other hand smart meters have been prevailing in recent years. Therefore we have been developing the monitoring system for watching them by using the smart meters. We prepared two algorithms of “average...
It is essential for a constructivist teacher to monitor the apprenticeship of each student in order to facilitate the definition of the next steps in the development of a discipline. Since monitor the apprenticeship is a very complex and time-consuming task, a theoretical framework that supports the observations of the teacher becomes necessary. The use of concept maps to record a students understanding...
Quality of service and quality of experience are of increasingly interest for successful communication network applications, particularly for decentralized networks, such as peer-to-peer (p2p) networks. They need sophisticated monitoring mechanisms to be able to adapt the system's parameters to maintain a certain level of quality of service. In the literature, several well-studied approaches, classified...
Internet-of-Things (IoT) is no longer just a research hype, but rather a reality in which ICT plays a fundamental role. Programming the behavior of Smart Environments not only enables designers to create innovative interactive experiences for intelligent spaces, but also empowers their inhabitants to tailor the intelligent facilities according to their preferences. To that end, this paper presents...
The Internet of Things systems consist of devices, sensors, and services that enable tangible objects to gather and transmit information about the physical world. In order to deliver their main functionality, some of these systems collect a very significant amount of data obtained from their sensors located in living spaces and office environments. This data may hide some interesting behavioral patterns...
The Ambient intelligence (AmI) paradigm refers to electronic environments which are sensitive and responsive to the presence of people. Queue systems are practically used in various institutions and commercial enterprises constituting a challenge for the intelligent environments in smart cities. The management of the customer flows guarantees elimination or reduction of the queues as well as the economic...
The article presents the results of studies of the physical security system in the infrastructure facility of a region. The following results have been obtained: structural and functional decomposition of the physical security system for the regional infrastructure has been performed; engineering solutions for the implementation of the standard functions for the subsystems of the research object have...
In this paper, we explore the task of intellectual information system creation for content formation. We developed the general recommendations for design of the intellectual system. Our system has special modules for processing of information resources. We created the software for formation, control, and implementation of content and made experiments on “Online newspaper” and “Online magazine” systems...
Efficient use of electric energy by users is one of the critical ways for increasing energy efficiency, reducing cost of power generation and supply, and environmental concerns. As part of remedial measures to address issues of energy use, many technologies for demand reduction ranging from energy saving devices through a variety of energy management systems have emerged to help users manage and control...
Specifying a Management Plane for the Software-Defined Networking (SDN) architecture is essential for monitoring, configuring and handling computer networks. Diverse solutions have proposed it but they share some shortcomings: incomplete representations of SDN elements, few human readable languages for managing networks, no communication management aimed at Internet Engineering and absence of supporting...
Timely, frequent, and complete cropland soil moisture information, acquired throughout the growing season is critical for agricultural policy, production, food security, and food prices. The NASA Soil Moisture Active and Passive (SMAP) mission provides a reliable data source for cropland soil moisture assessment. This paper presents a case study of using SMAP soil moisture data products for agriculture...
Fog computing is considered as the most promising enhancement of the traditional cloud computing paradigm in order to handle potential issues introduced by the emerging Interned of Things (IoT) framework at the network edge. The heterogeneous nature, the extensive distribution and the hefty number of deployed IoT nodes will disrupt existing functional models, creating confusion. However, IoT will...
In this paper, we present the design of a wearable photoplethysmography (PPG) system, R-band for acquiring the PPG signals. PPG signals are influenced by the respiration or breathing process and hence can be used for estimation of respiration rate. R-Band detects the PPG signal that is routed to a Bluetooth low energy device such as a nearbyplaced smartphone via microprocessor. Further, we developed...
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